South Carolina’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Lake Keowee is 18,500 acres of clear foothills water with some 300 miles of shoreline — and its finest homes sit on the most exposed ground on the lake: the open points, the ridge ends, and the big-water lots around Sunset (29685), Six Mile, Seneca, and Salem, in communities like The Cliffs, The Reserve, and Keowee Key. Storms build over the Blue Ridge and roll down onto the lake unbroken, and a point home’s roofline is the highest thing on the water. Many Keowee homes are second homes that sit empty between visits. We protect the whole property: main house, guest house, pool house, and garages, every building covered.
Keowee’s shoreline homes trade shelter for the view — and the view is exactly what lightning sees first. Points and peninsulas put rooflines out over open water, foothills storms sweep down off the escarpment at full strength, and tall hardwoods and pines stand over lots all around the lake. A strike to a chimney or ridgeline can tear masonry, ignite framing, and send destructive current through every circuit in the house — and in a second home, the first sign of trouble may come weeks later, on the next visit.
WB Lightning Rods protects Lake Keowee homes with low-profile systems designed around the architecture and the shoreline: discreet terminals on the roofline, heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, grounding sized for foothills clay and rock, and docks and boathouses folded into the property design. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Storms build over the Blue Ridge and break across the high ground and the open water first. On a point or a ridge end, your roofline is the highest point for a long way in every direction — on land and on water.
Keowee’s big water gives storms a clear run at the shoreline. A lake house faces weather that has crossed miles of open water without anything to weaken it or anything taller to hit.
Many Keowee homes wait empty between weekends and seasons. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not — and many quotes start from satellite imagery, so the process never needs you on site.
One company for the whole property — lakefront estates, custom homes, guest houses, pool houses, and docks, anywhere on Lake Keowee.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for Lake Keowee’s custom and lakefront homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines that respect the architecture and the shoreline.
Discreet, low-profile systems for older farmhouses and historic homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, protection you have to look for to see.
Barns, stables, and arenas protected along with the residence — horses, hay, and tack, all covered.
Agricultural buildings, equipment shops, and hay storage — the tallest structures on the farm, and the ones lightning finds first.
We protect all of your buildings — main house, guest house, pool house, garages, and outbuildings — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole property together, so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Mature oaks, maples, and specimen trees protected with their own terminals and grounding, so a shade tree never becomes the strike path to your roof.
Neighbors who install together save together — neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages for your street, road, or lake shore.
Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. Already have a system? We inspect it, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Building new? We design and install protection while the home or barn is going up — cleaner cable runs, nothing retrofitted after the fact.
Every WB system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines using UL-listed materials made in the USA — and designed for Lake Keowee specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first on lakefront properties.
Heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, carrying strike energy safely down and away from the structure.
Deep-driven ground rods at each structure, sized for foothills clay and rock, so strike energy disperses safely into the earth.
Metal roofing, gutters, water lines, and electrical services bonded to the protection system, so stray current can’t side-flash between metal parts.
Guest houses, pool houses, garages, and boathouses incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Keowee property is often more than the house — a guest house, a pool house, a boathouse and dock down the hill. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design, all of it protected, which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Pool equipment, dock power and boat lifts, well pumps, and HVAC all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies cove by cove. Neighbors in the same lake community who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of South Carolina statewide, a Keowee lake house and a primary home in Greenville or at the coast are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations on estate properties — rods fitted to rooflines and chimneys with a low-profile finish that respects the architecture.
Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your home — fast, accurate, and no obligation. Call 1-800-557-9037.
Our experienced crew installs the system, and every installation is personally supervised by the owner, start to finish.
Lifetime warranty on parts and labor, with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost. Then you watch South Carolina storms the calm way.
Yes. Storms build over the Blue Ridge and cross the open water unbroken, and on a point or ridge your roofline is the highest point around. A system designed for the roofline gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth instead.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, the water near your dock, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, boat-lift motors, well pumps, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the terminals on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Yes — the waterfront side belongs in the design. Boathouses are designed into the property plan with their own terminals, conductors, and grounding, and dock power and boat-lift circuits are bonded into the property’s grounding plan.
Yes — and lake houses are exactly where protection matters most, because nobody is home to smell smoke or cut power when a storm rolls down the lake. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not, and many quotes start from satellite imagery so the process doesn’t need you on site.
Yes. When several homes in the same lake community install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup — and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages. It only takes one organizer to get it started.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Property packages price multiple buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your property — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
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